What's the alternative? Just curious. I use REs when I need REs, and when I need one it's because the alternative seems to be to write a whole string parser or some clunky seriously code-verbose combination for finds, splits, replaces, etc that is even harder to read that an regex.
But then I guess I grew up with REs and have no real issue with them. Be nice if advanced RE syntax had evolved a little more standardly and didn't diverge into flavours, which it did but hey.
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What's the alternative? Just curious. I use REs when I need REs, and when I need one it's because the alternative seems to be to write a whole string parser or some clunky seriously code-verbose combination for finds, splits, replaces, etc that is even harder to read that an regex.
But then I guess I grew up with REs and have no real issue with them. Be nice if advanced RE syntax had evolved a little more standardly and didn't diverge into flavours, which it did but hey.